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D’oh! There’s a typo in the name of this group (“Athiesm” should be “Atheism” 😉

Original Sin

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Carl Coon

We define human nature as behavior based on information in one’s DNA. That information is genetic and is not derived culturally. Other behavior reflects what the individual has learned after birth and is derived as part of culture.

Basing the definition of human nature on genetics gives u…[Read more]

Hi, Malcolm. Thanks for starting this group. Do you know of any notable work by any libertarian or anarcho-capitalist that fully makes the case for what might be called “godless liberty,” that a life free of not only the state but also of religion is the maximum expression of individual liberty?

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.
— Emma…[Read more]